Microbike learning center¶
Lesson 1: Modifying the Microbike in Fusion¶
- all our physcials bodies of Microbike are designed in Fusion, if you never used it before, here is the good youtube tutorial vidoes. (you can sign up with laf email to get free version: Fusion free version )
- After signing in Fusion, download the Microbike Fusion zip file, or directly access it through your local git file after git clone, after downloading, expand the zip file to get the .f3z file which we can upload to Fusion
- Inside of the Fsuion, on the left side, click "New Project" to creat a project for Microbike
- Go to this new Microbike Project and click "upload"
, and then "select file". choose the .f3z file that you just downloaded from git, then click"upload". - After uploading, you will see some files list on the left side of your screen, double click "bike_pcb_interservo_kickstand"
you will see the bike look like this, and you can see each steps of buidling process on the bottom of the screen 
You can also change the bike according to your needs. For example, if you wanna make a new hole on the bike body, you can click create sketch on the top left corner. 
then choose the surface that you wanna modify, as shown,choose the bike body surface
then, you can build sketch on this surfarce, you can choose the shape under "sktech", here I will choose circle 
you can use the shortcut "D" to change the dimension, after modifying, click "Finish Sketch" on the right side of the screen. 
- next, use the "Extrude"on the top left to cut the hole
then, select the sketch you made from previous step and choose the operation "Cut" 
drag the little arrow next to the hole to cut the objects, also can modify the distance next to it 
after finishing, you can revise the "skecth" and "extrude" on the bottom of the screen, as shown below. 
- the difference between Zumo and Microbike is, Zumo use Arduino Mega board; Microbike use Pololu A-star 32U4. so you have install pololu A-star 32U4 board. Go Tools-Board-Boards Manager, then search for Pololu A-Star Boards,Select the “Pololu A-Star Boards” entry in the list, and click the “Install” button.
.After installing, you can choose the board here: 
- Remeber use "Ctrl+S" or File-Save to save your work after you modifying
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